Improvement in tailors  drafting apparatus



P. ROND-EL.

A TAILoRs DRAFTING' APPARATUS.

No.174,443. Patented March 7,1876.4

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,.lMPRovE-MENT IN 1iAlLo-Rs DRAFTING. APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,443, dated March 7, 1876; application tiled October To all 'whom it may concern Beit known that I, PIERRE ROUDEL, of Paris, France, have invented an improved apparatus for measuring the human figure, and for setting out the patterns ot' garments, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of the same.

This invention relates to a mechanical or geometrical apparatus for use in setting out patterns of garments, and also to an apparatus, termed a conformator, for obtaining tailors7 measurements ofthe human figure, the'latter poses.

By means of the apparatus of this invention the utmost precision is insured, and a tailor is enabled to produce with absolute certitude perfectly-tting garments, which do not require to b e tried on and altered before being finally made up, asin the case of garments cut upon measurements taken in the ordinary manner. Moreover, the garments may be made according to all theditferent methods of cutting out, and in all the various styles and fashions,- whether simple or complex, with the same precision ot' tit and with equal facility.

Another advantage is the facility alforded by the cont'ormator or apparatus above mentioned for self-measurement at a distance from the tailor, so that by transmitting the measurements so taken ot' the different parts of the ligure perfectly-fitting garments can be produced wit-hout trying on or alteration.

As before mentioned the invention comprises two apparatus, viz: first, a mechanical or geometrical apparatus, constructed of metal, for use in setting out the patterns; and, second, the apparatus termed a conformator,77 made of india-rubber, and used for taking the measurement of the human ligure.

In'the drawing Figure-l is aface view of view of the improved conformator.

The conformator A is an elastic garment or partial garment, made of india-rubber vor equivalent material, so that it will, when placed upon a person, snugly adapt itself to yhis or her figure. This conformator has lines or projecting ribs a a and bb, and other marksformed on it, of the like elastic material, so that said 1ines,ribs, or marks will expand and contract with the body ot' the comformator. The article, being on a person, bust, or other. thing vto be measured, enables the tailor or other person to ascertain the exact pattern necessary i'or a fitting garment, by measuring the length'of the lines or ribs, and the distances between them and between the marks. Every peculiarity` of outline will thus be detected and properly located with great exactness. For transferring the measurements found on the conformator I have devised the delineator or extension instrument B, (shown in Fig.

V1,) which is made of a series of adjustable graduated slides, d d, e e, Src., whose position on the supporting-bar fand its branches correspond,substantially, to the position of the marks on the conformator A. The length found on any line or rib of the conformator is, therefore, conveniently set out on the graduated slides d d and e e, until the outlines indicated by their ends will correspond to the outline of the garments to be produced. I will, of course, use a conformator for the waist, another for trousers, another for the frock, Src., and for every conformator a corresponding delineator. plicable to other than tailors7 purposes. Thus it may be used by sculptors for producing Statuary, and for other analogous purposes.

I am aware ofthe Patent No. 56,892, granted to S. O. Brigham, August 7, 1866, for an improved body-conformer; but in this patent the elastic conformator is provided with rows of spurs for puncturing a pattern of pa.- per placed thereon, and it can, therefore, not be used in connection with a tape-measure, as the spurs would cut and injure the tape while used on the conformator for taking measurements. But the smooth projecting ribs invented by me do not interfere with the proper use of the tape-measure, and yet allow the application of translucent paper patterns.

I claim as my invention- 1. The elastic cont'ormator A, herein described, provided with smooth projecting ribs,

The invention is aplines, or marks of like material, across which the tape-measure is placed in the process of measuring, substantially as specied.

2. The combination of the elastic conformator A, herein described, with the extensible delineator B, having the adjustable graduated slides d d e e and the supporting-bar f, the position of the slides on the supportingbar corresponding, substantially, with the posiition of the ribs or marks on the conformator A, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

PIERRE ROUDEL. Witnesses:

EMILE DUHAN, ALEXANDRE SILBERMAN; 

